ENDOSCOPIC TECHNOLOGIES IN EARLY RECTAL CANCER TREATMENT

Abstract

Total mesorectal excision is the “golden standard” of surgical treatment for rectal cancer. Development of endoscopic technologies allowed to implement the benefits of minimally invasive surgery in early rectal cancer treatment, decrease morbidity and mortality, improve functional outcome and quality of life. Oncological safety of this method is still a subject for discussion due to lack of lymph node harvest. Endoscopic operations for early rectal cancer are being actively implemented in daily practice, but lack of experience does not allow to include this method in national clinical prac-tice guidelines.

Keywords

• rectal cancer
• endoscopic submucosal dissection
• transanal endoscopic microsurgery
• transanal endoscopic operation